A woman vacationing in Puyallup is missing near Mount Rainier after not returning from a hiking trip Sunday afternoon.

Lacy Annette Murphy, 24, drove alone toward the mountain to go on a hike near Mowich Lake about 2:30 p.m. Sunday and has not been seen nor heard from since, Puyallup police said in a news release. She had told her mother she was going to be back by 7:30 p.m., police spokesman Scott Engle said.

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